[dns-wg] Updating RIPE 203

On 14 Aug 2017, at 0:17, Carsten Strotmann wrote:

>> Dropping the retry value down further seems reasonable, maybe to 5
>> minutes. You always want your secondaries to have fresh data. If you
>> have secondaries that are having problems contacting you, you have an
>> operational problem. Maybe add some text to the new version 
>> explaining
>> why this number is lower and suggesting that the watch the logs on 
>> their
>> secondaries for failures to refresh.
>
> We'll consider this. Care must be taken that once a server is not
> reachable because of too much traffic, a too low RETRY value might 
> make
> things worse. But I agree it is preferrable to have fast recovery.

The "retry" value only applies to secondary servers. If a master is 
overloaded by thousands of customers, adding in its one or two secondary 
servers will barely be noticed.

--Paul Hoffman